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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine the threshold of incomes that apply to SUSI applications; his plans to reverse recent changes which may exclude more students from accessing the grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25207/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will detail any work his Department is undertaking to analyse the reason the numbers qualifying for SUSI grants has fallen over recent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25206/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (19 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 337. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason that was used by her Department in 2000 when the decision was taken to commence the direct provision system; the studies, risk assessments and policy deliberations and so on that were conducted by her Department at the time; the advice that the advisors Government and external advisors relied upon to support the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: -----and I am representing my constituents. That is what we are doing here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: I thank all the witnesses for coming today. They will understand from our perspective that we in the Opposition have mainly been asking for a discussion around this deal for two years now, which we are only getting in the last two weeks. It is really unsatisfactory for us. Again, I will appeal publicly to the Government to delay this and give us more time because we are being pushed into a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: Demographically, it was withdrawing and it knew that this was happening, obviously. Its membership is not stupid. History was taking its course in that the order was not going to be around forever in sufficient numbers. Mr. Menton started working in St. Vincent's Healthcare Group in 2014, is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: At what point did Mr. Menton have the first discussion with the Sisters of Charity about that evolution and the possibility of it leaving the group?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: Within one to two months.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: Okay. When Mr. Menton was recruited or appointed, did the Sisters of Charity play any role in his recruitment or appointment? Did it seek him out? Did it interview him? Did it appoint him?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: Invited by who?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: The Sisters of Charity wanted Mr. Menton back.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: In a situation where the Sisters of Charity knew its demise was inevitable, the order wanted Mr. Menton back into the position that he is in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: There must be a good reason for that. I do not doubt Mr. Menton is a good worker and a conscientious man but there must be a good reason from its perspective. Staying on the question of evolution, Mr. Menton talked about how the hospital is now completely secular. Has he removed all the iconography? Is the Mother Mary Aikenhead picture gone? Are the crucifixes gone?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: Okay, so the evolutionary process is not complete.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: It is still in course. We are still removing the church from our healthcare services in St. Vincent's and removing the physical manifestations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: I am sorry; I wanted to ask Mr. Menton the questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: My next question to Mr. Menton is on the course of this evolution. As late as 2020, it is my understanding that recruitment required a doctor or nurse who was recruited into the healthcare group to follow the Catholic ethos and have ethical beliefs and commitment to the project of St. Vincent's under Mother Mary Aikenhead.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: When did it go, please?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: Since 2012, therefore, it has not been a requirement of the agreement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: My question relates to when it was no longer a requirement of the recruitment process for the Catholic ethos to be adhered to.